WORTHY: THE BRAVE AND CAPABLE LIFE OF JOSEPH PIERCE Virtual Book Launch
2025-09-30 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join Newbery Honor author Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011) and illustrator Youa Vang in conversation with educators and leaders of the NCTE Asian/AAPI Caucus, Diana Liu and Leah Werther, as they discuss Andrea and Youa’s historical nonfiction picture book, WORTHY: THE BRAVE AND CAPABLE LIFE OF JOSEPH PIERCE

This event is free and open to all.

Lost City Books Fall Salon with Erin Cecilia Thomas
2025-10-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Line DC, 1770 Euclid St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009, United States
A quarterly reading series featuring Erin Cecilia Thomas (Fiction, January 2023) and other local and visiting authors.

The event will be held in the Carina room of The Line hotel.

This is a free event. Seating will be first come first served. Doors open at 7pm.

Contact events@lostcitybookstore.com with questions.

Bright Before Us, Like a Flame Book Launch with Jason Reynolds
2025-10-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Planet Word Museum | Friedman Family Auditorium, 925 13th St., NW, Washington D.C., District of Columbia, 20005, United States
Celebrate Shout Mouse Press’s new anthology, which features work from 10 years of SMP books & contributions from guest authors, including Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017). #1 NYT best-selling author Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty) will join a panel of Shout Mouse youth authors for readings and conversation.

Abbie Harlow's THE BUTTERFLY'S STING In Store Event and Book Signing
2025-10-10 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, California, 94705, United States
Abbie Harlow (WFYP, June 2019) presents her debut young adult novel about a teen competing in a fight club for a chance to escape an abusive home.

Abbie will sign copies of her book after the presentation.

THIS EVENT is free but registration is requested. Registration ends at 5:30 pm on October 10.

What The Universe Is: Cindy Veach and July Westhale
2025-10-14 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join poets Cindy Veach and July Westhale (Poetry, June 2013) for the latest session of What The Universe Is, the online poetry reading series founded by Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017).

Cindy Veach is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Monster Galaxy; Her Kind; and Gloved Against Blood. She is also the author of the chapbook, Innocents. Her poems have appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series, AGNI, Chicago Review, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review, Diode, The Journal, Nimrod, North American Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Cindy received an MFA from the University of Oregon where she was a graduate teaching fellow and an assistant poetry editor for Northwest Review. She is co-poetry editor of MER (Mom Egg Review).

July Westhale’s books include moon moon, Trailer Trash, Unmade Hearts, and Via Negativa. Ocean Vuong chose Westhale as the 2018 University of Arizona Poetry Center Fellow. Their translation of the Chilean poet Rolando Cardenas’ collected works was selected for the 2026 Unsung Masters Series (forthcoming from Pleiades Press). They have work in McSweeney’s, DIAGRAM, The National Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Huffington Post, among others.

EVER SINCE WE SMALL Launch Party with Celeste Mohammed
2025-10-15 18:30 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Carmelite House, 8 Carmelite St, Temple, London, EC4Y 0DZ, United Kingdom
Join Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) and the Shelf Interest Bookclub for an evening of conversation, books, drinks and music as they discuss her second novel-in-stories, Ever Since We Small.

This London event kicks off a UK-wide tour and is a chance for long-term fans of Celeste Mohammed’s work to meet the author in person and celebrate her triumphant second offering.

Copies of Ever Since We Small will be on sale all night at a special pre-publication date 10% off, with author signings to follow the in-conversation.

EVER SINCE WE SMALL Nottingham Book Launch with Celeste Mohammed
2025-10-16 18:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Nottingham Central Library, 1Carrington Street, Nottingham, NG1 7FH, United Kingdom
Nottingham Central Library hosts an evening with award-winning author Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) to celebrate her new novel Ever Since We Small.

Join Celeste and Panya Banjoko for a discussion that roots this spellbinding novel in a historic context that reshapes how we understand the Caribbean and its people.

Books will be sold by Five Leaves Bookshop with a book signing to follow the conversation and a chance to meet the Trinidad-based award-winning author in person.

2025 Litquake Literary Festival with July Westhale
2025-10-17 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Hear July Westhale (Poetry, June 2013) and other poets at Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival.

This celebration of poetry collates a half-dozen poets’ stylings. Featuring multi-hyphenate award-winning poets for a lurid evening of ebullient verse.

Abbie Harlow Book Signing at Books Inc.
2025-10-18 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Books Inc., 1344 Park Street, Alameda, CA, 94501, United States
Join author Abbie Harlow (WFYP, June 2019) at Books Inc. in Alameda to read and sign copies of her first novel, The Butterfly’s Sting.

Never again. That’s what seventeen-year-old Bo Clark has promised her two younger siblings ever since they were put in separate foster homes―a situation that nearly turned deadly for her little brother, and that they have vowed never to repeat. Bo will do anything to keep that promise. Even if it means enduring the abuse of Uncle Jack, their new guardian. When Jack discovers that Bo has a talent for boxing, he signs her up for an underground fight club tournament, which could bring in enough money for her to move out with her siblings as soon as she turns eighteen.

But the ring is a brutal place, and when Bo’s cutman is arrested, Jack is forced to bring a new one onto the team. Liam turns out to be a schoolmate of Bo’s, and even as the two of them grow closer, she worries that he will go to the authorities if he ever finds out Jack is hurting her.

As Bo makes her way closer to the big prize, Jack starts to set his sights beyond the tournament, and in an explosive finale, the violence moves outside the ring, putting everything Bo loves at risk.

The Art of Alchemy: Yoga, Poetry & Creative Sustainability with Lindsey O’Neill
2025-10-19 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Down Under School of Yoga, 22 JFK Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
Lindsey O’Neill (Poetry, June 2019) will host The Art of Alchemy: Yoga, Poetry & Creative Sustainability.

In a world that often pulls us away from the sacred in everyday life, how can yoga, self-care, and poetry transform our inner experiences into living art? How can we turn the tension between heart and mind into clarity, connection, and creative expression?

In this workshop, your body becomes a vessel, your breath a guide, and poetry a doorway. Through a slow-flow vinyasa practice paired with creative writing, you’ll explore the fullness of your own experience, uncover the sacredness woven into daily life, and translate it into authentic, expressive art.

By the end, you’ll have cultivated a stronger connection to your own voice, drafted new poems, and developed self-care practices to sustain a lifelong dialogue between your yoga, your words, and your world.

Wear clothing you can move in. Please bring a notebook, writing utensil & yoga mat (mats are available to rent in the studio for $3)

Author Talk with Celeste Mohammad
2025-10-20 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Sevenoaks Bookshop, 147 High Street, Sevenoaks, TN13 1XJ, United Kingdom
Join author Celeste Mohammad (Fiction, June 2016) at the Sevenoaks Bookshop to celebrate the release of her new novel, Ever Since We Small.

Celeste Mohammed’s second novel-in-stories, Ever Since We Small, is a family saga which covers a sweeping landscape from the days of the British Raj in India, to multicultural modern Trinidad.

Deranged Sonnets: A Workshop with L Scully
2025-10-20 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | LookyHere, 28 Chapman Street, Greenfield, Massachusetts, 01301, United States
Join writer L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) for a single session workshop focused on creating your own DIY sonnets. You will accompany L for one evening of their daily sonnet quest. This class is a two hour generative session. Arrive with a silly, open heart, and leave with the beginnings of three new pieces. While sonnets are a famous poetic staple, writers from all genres are encouraged to participate. Get weird, queer, and let fourteen lines steward your journey together.

Ever Since We Small: An Evening with Celeste Mohammed in Leeds
2025-10-23 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Waterstones, Leeds, 93-97 Albion Street, Leeds, LS1 5AP, United Kingdom
Celeste Mohammad (Fiction, June 2016) will be in conversation with Emily Zobel Marshall at Waterstones, Leeds to celebrate the release of her new novel, Ever Since We Small.

Poetry Reading with Frances Donovan
2025-10-23 20:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Square Root, 2 Corinth St, ROSLINDALE, Massachusetts, 02131, United States
Hear poet Frances Donovan (Poetry, June 2019) and others at Square Root Readings: Rozzie Poets Edition & Open Mic.

Books for sale before the event at Rozzie Bound.

Book Launch with Unnameable Books: Self-Romancing by L Scully
2025-10-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Unnameable Books, 66 Avenue A, Turners Falls, Massachusetts, 01376, United States
Join L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) at Unnameable Books for the launch of their poetry collection, Self-Romancing (Dopamine Books). They will be in conversation with CA Conrad (Listen to the Golden Boomerang Returns), and the event will be hosted by Zoe Tuck (Bedroom Vowel).

2025 Norwich Book Festival with Celeste Mohammad
2025-10-26 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, 115 – 123 King Street, Norwich, NR1 1QE, United Kingdom
Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) will be joined by fellow Trinidadian writer Ayanna Lloyd-Banwo to explore themes of belonging, resistance, and legacy — and how West African and Caribbean folklore and history has shaped their storytelling and their characters’ lives. The event: Family and Folklore: Mysticism in West African and Caribbean Stories is part of the Norwich Book Festival.

This event is followed by book sales and signing with The Book Hive.

Can we overcome the pain passed down through generations? In her powerful second novel-in-stories, Ever Since We Small, Celeste Mohammed blends the real and the mythical, the mundane and the magical, to create a vivid tapestry of Indo-Trinidadian family life spanning decades.

Lying: A Writing Workshop with L. Scully
2025-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Looky Here, 28 Chapman Street, Greenfield, Massachusetts, 01301, United States
Join writer L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) for a two-hour writing workshop at Looky Here.

PoemWorks Series: Poetry Reading with Rex Arrasmith and Karen Sharpe
2025-11-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join Rex Arrasmith (Fiction/Poetry, January 2018/June 2020) and Karen Sharpe for an evening of poetry reading and open mic with the online PoemWorks series.

2025 MAVA Conference with Stephanie Williing
2025-11-09 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Westin Dulles Hotel, 2520 Wasser Terrace, Herndon, Virginia, 20171, United States
Join Stephanie Willing (WFYP, June 2017) at the Mid Atlantic Voice Over Conference. Stephanie will lead the breakout session: Audiobooks: By the Book: Performances grounded in genre, rooted in text, inspired by you.

In this session, participants will discuss audiobook auditions and listen to brief examples from master narrators in key genres, identify their choices, and then work on excerpts. Attendees will have the opportunity to read and receive feedback from an excerpt of their choice. Options will be provided before the session.

Andrea Wang & Lauren H. Kerstein In Conversation at Boulder Bookstore
2025-11-09 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Denver) | Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011) and Lauren H. Kerstein will speak about and sign their new books, Worthy: The Brave and Capable Life of Joseph Pierce, and Hope Rode at Boulder Bookstore. This is a FREE kid’s event, but registration is required.

About Worthy:Worthy is the true story of a man of indomitable spirit. In the mid-nineteenth century, an impoverished father from Canton, China, sold his young son to an American sea captain, Amos Peck. The boy, dubbed “Joe,” worked on the ship for months, not knowing if his fate was to do so forever. Or would he be sold again? When the ship returned to America, Captain Peck brought the young boy to his family, who raised him with the other children. Joe Pierce grew, gave distinguished service in the Union Army, married, had children and ultimately became an American citizen–all at a time when anti-Chinese prejudice was rampant.

About Hope Rode:Following the Great Depression, literacy rates in the country had dwindled, and education and opportunities were harder to come by, especially in areas like rural Appalachia. But still, there was a dream: a vision of a nation in which reading was accessible to all—even those in the most remote places.

The Packhorse Library project of the 1930s and 1940s called upon Kentucky women to make that vision a reality and rise to the difficult and demanding job of delivering books on horseback. The Packhorse librarians were brave, steadfast, and resilient. For years, the women endured rough terrain, harsh conditions, and exhaustion. And with each book delivered and reading lesson taught, the librarians ushered in a new era for Kentuckians.

Hope Rode tells the true story of the strength, courage, and conviction of the Packhorse librarians.

Experiments & Disorders: Readings with L Scully, Patricia Spears Jones, and Heather Lynn Johnson
2025-11-11 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford, this event features fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers. Featured authors include L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023), Patricia Spears Jones, and Heather Lynn Johnson.

L Scully is a living writer. They are, first and foremost, a lover.

Patricia Spears Jones is an African American poet, anthologist and cultural activist who received the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and was appointed The New York State Poet (23-25). She is author of The Beloved Community and ten other collections, and two plays commissioned and produced by Mabou Mines. She edited THINK: Poems for Aretha Franklin Inauguration Day Hat and Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women Poets. She serves on the board of The Poetry Project, is founder/of the American Poets Congress, is a Senior Fellow Emeritus for the Black Earth Institute and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Hartwick College.

Heather Lynn Johnson (she, they) is an artist and poet living in Brooklyn whose work is characterized by its lyricism and cultural critique. Heather’s formal approach to the narrative, whether visual or poetic, is distinguished by her willingness to lay bare her own existence. Centered around queer and Black American liberation and culture, with an emphasis on outsiders, rebels and lost histories, Heather uses an autobiographical framework and considers their work imbued by their lived experience as a butch Black lesbian. Heather has published poems in the Panorama Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Pique Magazine, Pine Magazine, and Facility Magazine. Heather was a co-curator for Queer|Art|Film from 2020-23, the 2019 Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellow, and the 2017 Literary Fellow for Queer|Art|Mentorship. She is also the author of “The Survival Guide For Queer Black Youth” (Inpatient Press, 2017) and received an MFA with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design.

The Goldilocks Strategy: Getting Our Relationship with Bears and Lions Just Right with Tony Eprile and Megan Walla-Murphy
2025-11-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online Event
Join South African novelist and photographer Tony Eprile (Fiction, MFA Writing Faculty) from his home in Vermont in conversation with CLAWS Botswana director, Dr. Andrew Stein, and biologist/tracker, Meghan Walla-Murphy (Nonfiction Alum), as they share their adventures and insights from working with animals such as lions and black bears. Learn first hand from researchers working with dangerous predators and communities that live alongside them how they are using a combination of new technology and indigenous wisdom to coexist.

Tony Eprile is a South African novelist and photographer who lives in Vermont. His novel, “The Persistence of Memory,” was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Dr. Andrew Stein has spent over two decades studying human–carnivore conflict across Africa, working with African wild dogs, lions, leopards, and hyenas in Kenya, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.

For over 25 years, Meghan Walla-Murphy has had the good fortune of combining her passions of wildlife, ecology, and indigenous knowledge into work of conservation, advocacy, and outreach.

Young Adult Author Symposium (YAAS) with Kate Fussner
2025-11-15 09:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Concord-Carlisle High School, 500 Walden Street, Concord, Massachusetts, 01742, United States
Do you like to read, write, or draw? Register for this year’s Young Adult Author Symposium (YAAS)! Meet 20 authors and illustrators, including Kate Fussner (WFYP, June 2021), hear about how they created their books, and learn how you can write or draw your own! The Silver Unicorn Bookstore will be on hand selling books. Pizza and baked goods will also be available to purchase.

Poetry Reading with Andrea Ballou
2025-11-16 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Boston University, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States
Join Andrea Ballou (Poetry, June 2015) for a poetry reading at Boston University. Open Mic to follow.

2025 NCTE Conference with Jasmine Warga
2025-11-21 12:30 - 13:45 (America/Denver) | Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States
Join Jasmine Warga (WFYP, June 2013) at the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention for her workshop: Memory Dreaming, Memory Keeping: Collecting, Creating, and Keeping Memories with the Young Folks in Our Lives. This workshop will explore the ways we can better understand ourselves, the students we serve, and the legacies we create by holding dear our memories and elevating our dreams—the good, the bad; the hopeful, the nostalgic. In this session, authors and educators will share ways we collect and keep memories with young people in classrooms across the country.

Sip and Read: Celeste Mohammad
2025-11-22 16:30 - 18:30 (America/Port_of_Spain) | Scribbles and Quills, 6 Gaston Street, Lange Park, Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
Enjoy an evening of readings and conversation with award-winning author Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) for a special Sip & Read event featuring her latest work, Ever Since We Small.Sip, nibble, relax: the ambiance will be cozy, warm, and literary.

Virtual Screening of "Nothing Solid" with Sharisse Zeroonian
2025-11-22 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Online Event
Join director Sharisse Zeroonian (WSS, January 2024) for a screening and discussion of “Nothing Solid”, the world’s first and (so far) only movie about CVS.

NOTE: Recommended for ages 16+

2025 Emerging Playwright Competition with Patricia Lynn
2025-11-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Phillips Mill Community Association, 2619 River Road, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 18938, United States
Join Patricia Lynn (WSS, June 2023) for a reading and moderated talkback of her winning play, The Untitled Spinster, at the 2025 Emerging Playwright Competition’s reading of plays.

Book Signing with Kristin Offiler
2025-12-03 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Martin House Books, 10 Canal St., Westerly, Rhode Island, 02891, United States
Join Kristin Offiler (Fiction, January 2011) in beautiful, downtown Westerly for the 28th Annual Holiday Stroll! Kristin will be on hand to sign/personalize her new book, The Housewarming, starting at 5 pm.

Poetry Reading with KB Ballentine
2025-12-11 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Neighborly Books, 106 East Broadway Avenue, Maryville, Tennessee, 37804, United States
Join us KB Ballentine (Poetry, June 2007), along with three local poets, for a cozy evening of poetry & conversations at Neighborly Books.
